Grown-up blogging

Secretly I feel a bit silly, starting this shiny new blog, when I have a perfectly good Dreamwidth that holds my archives going back to 2002. I mean, am I ashamed of my (*gulp*) ten years of writing fan fiction, flailing about Harry Potter and Doctor Who and Avatar: the Last Airbender (among others)? Not in the slightest!

But there is something to be said for having a nice blog you can take home to your mother, or at least tell people about at conventions. I’ve decided that it’s like going to work. At home, I wear jeans (or, you know, pyjamas) and lie around and say whatever comes into my head. At work, I wear nice clothes and brush my hair and make small talk, and generally behave in what I hope is a professional manner.

I have something being published later this year, which I cannot talk about yet, and I am writing … various things, not necessarily in the speculative genre, but roughly in the neighbourhood. I’m also doing programming for Continuum 9 in 2013, and the committee members I met over the weekend all seem so sensible and professional and not at all likely to tell people off for being wrong about a children’s cartoon. So this is my amateur professional blog, and hopefully one day I can strike out the “amateur” bit.